Memorial, Paperback/Alice Oswald

An original new poem which is also a version of Homer's Iliad, from the prize-winning Oswald. Now in paperback, Oswald retrieves the poem's energy by stripping away the story and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief 'biographies' of the minor war-dead. '...it is written with a freshness to match Homer's own' Observer